Mat for bar wash-basins



(No Model.)

J. T. KEANE.

MAT FOR BAR WASH BASINS.

No. 442,626. Patented Dec. 16, 1890.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH T. KEANE, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

MAT FOR BAR WASH-BASINS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 442,626, dated December 16, 1890. Application filed July 25, 1890. Serial No. 359,896. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH T. KEANE, a citizen of the United States of America, residingat Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Mats for Bar \Vash-Basins, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

My invention pertains to an improvement in mats for bar wash-basins for washing glasses, and it is designed to prevent the expense and loss occasioned by breaking of glasses incident to their being hastily deposited in wash-basins to be washed at leisure; and my invention consists in the peculiar construction, combination, and arrangement of the parts, substantially as described, and shown in the accompanying drawing, in which the figure is a sectional elevation of my mat for bar wash-basins.

In the construction of my wash-basin for bars I employ an ordinary wash-basin as to form or suitable for washing drinking-glasses, as usual for bars, and in the bottom of the basin deposit rubber or elastic mat A, having its center arched to suit the form of the basin, and thus elevated beheld centrally above the bottom of the basin, thus obviating the need of feet on the mat. It is provided with an outwardly-inclined flange b, which enables it to be adapted to the bottoms of basins of ditferent size or form, as the flange projects outwardly and upwardly from the edge of the disk or mat, and may be readily contracted in fitting the mat to the basin.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

As an improvement in mats for bar washbasins for washing drinking-glasses, the rubber mat provided with an inclined flange and centrally arched to present a soft and yielding surface to the glasses as therein deposited, substantially as shown, and for the purpose described. a

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOSEPH T. KEANE.

Witnesses:

WM. R; MCLAIN, FRANK H. SMITH. 

